dinner and a surprise

Syanna gave the two of them a baffled look, which only further confused Romulus. He felt like he was missing something glaringly obvious when she looked at him that way, and the cryptic way she mentioned Lillith's health didn't make things any better. But when the orange-furred healer began to explain a little more, pointing out what was going on with Lillith, the things he hadn't noticed or had noticed but had put out of his mind, slowly the puzzle pieces came together to make the bigger picture. Roman's mouth slowly fell opened in a shocked gasp, steel eyes growing wider with panic and disbelief until Syanna finally just came out and said the obvious diagnosis.

Lillith was pregnant.

Roman turned his eyes back to his lover just in time to meet her panicked ruby gaze. She looked like she was in a state of shock, looking to him for support and comfort. Their romantic dinner and the evening's events afterwards wholly forgotten, Roman reached out to take Lil into his arms, pulling her closer to his body while he gazed at her. Though he didn't necessarily need to, he slowly brought his muzzle down to nuzzle the side of her neck, breathing in her scent and really sampling it, focusing on all the nuances of her smell. She did smell different, but he hadn't known how to place the smell and had just attributed it to her fluctuating hormones with her heat. But now that Syanna mentioned it, even her heat scent had died down quite a bit, and well before the season had turned.

"It's gonna be okay," he tried to reassure her with his usual roguish grin, even though the look in his eyes betrayed his obvious shock and panic. "We'll figure this out, just like always." While he held Lillith in his tight, secure embrace, he turned to look at Syanna with a pointed glare that told her to leave them alone. They needed time to talk and figure out what they were going to do.

"Speech"